Walter Cipa

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Walter Johannes Cipa (born November 29, 1928 in Gliwice ) is a former German industrial manager . From 1969 to 1975 he was chairman of the board of Gelsenberg AG and from 1976 to 1980 chairman of the board of AEG-Telefunken .

Life

The son of civil engineer Ernst Cipa and Marie Kusz studied geology at the Technical University of Aachen and the University of Freiburg . After successful diploma examination in 1955 he became at Aachen Technical University with a theme for Applied Geophysics (Dissertation: Geomagnetic survey of some lava flows and Tuffschlote in the front Eifel ) for Dr. rer. nat. PhD .

Cipa began his professional career in 1955 as an operations assistant at Deutsche Erdöl AG (DEA) and also studied economics . In 1961 he moved from DEA to Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (GBAG) in Essen , where he was commissioned to set up a department for crude oil and natural gas. He gained practical experience in the mineral oil business, became an authorized signatory in 1964 and one year later rose to the board of directors of the corporation, which has now been renamed Gelsenberg. From 1969 he was Friedrich Funcke's successor as chairman of the board. After the merger of Gelsenberg Petrol AG with Veba Chemie AG to form Veba Oel AG , he left the company in July 1975.

In August 1975, at the instigation of Jürgen Ponto , the spokesman for the board of directors of Dresdner Bank , Cipa joined the board of directors of AEG-Telefunken as director and deputy chairman. In July 1976, after Hans Groebe moved to the supervisory board, he took on the role of chairman of the board. However, he was unsuccessful in restructuring the company. AEG's group debt continued to grow, so that in January 1980 he resigned from his position on the board.

Walter Cipa has been married to Eva Mayer since 1958. The couple is childless. In his youth, Cipa, a “manager with a hard will and an iron fist,” was an amateur boxer in the heavyweight division.

literature

  • Walter Cipa , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/1988 of October 17, 1988, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on April 12, 2016 ( beginning of article freely available)
  • The International Who's Who 1983-84. Europa Publications Limited, London 1983, p. 253.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tobias Lampe: Germany, your managers . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 29, 1975.
  2. ↑ Heinz-Günter Kemmer: The man who knows everything better. Geologist Walter Cipa is supposed to renovate the ailing electrical company AEG. In: time online . August 29, 1975. Retrieved April 12, 2016 .
  3. ^ Walter Cipa Chairman of the Board of AEG-Telefunken. In: frequency. Journal for vibration and low-voltage technology. Volume 30th year 1976, p. 229.
  4. ↑ AEG. Hastily downhill . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1979, pp. 116-117 ( Online - Apr. 23, 1979 ).
  5. ↑ Heads of Business. Walter Cipa. (No longer available online.) In: Wirtschaftswoche . Archived from the original on April 12, 2016 ; Retrieved April 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiwo.de
personal data
SURNAME Cipa, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cipa, Walter Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial manager
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice